220 EEV. E. BOOG WATSON ON THE 



This resembles the Turritella sinuata, Reeve ; but in that the 

 apex is much finer, the earlier suture much shallower, and the 

 whorls of much slower increase. It is extremely like some speci- 

 mens in the British Museum, on a tablet numbered " 906. Bass 

 Strait," and on the back of which there is written " 45 fms., coarse 

 sand and dead shells ;" but they are, I think, distinct. In many 

 respects it recalls the well-known Mediterranean and Atlantic 

 species T. triplicata, Broc. ; but it is a smaller and more delicate 

 species than that, and the finer spiral sculpture is very much 

 more delicate and irregular. 



2. TlJEEITELLA ACCISA, n. Sp. 



St. 162. April 2, 1874. Lat. 39° 10' 30" S., long. 146° 37' E. 

 S.E. Australia, off E. Moncceur Island, Bass Strait. 38-40 fms. 

 Sand. 



Shell, — Subulate, a very little contracted at the edge of the 

 flattish and little conical base, with a strongly fur- 

 rowed suture, on the lip a deep sharp sinus, thin- 

 nish, speckled. Sculpture. The surface is closely 

 covered with very fine sharp scratches on the 



highly curved lines of growth, which are specially T b 



.11 Tii n -, ral sinus of 



crisp on the base, where they are nexuous and T urr n e u aac . 



unbroken. Spirals — there are on the last whoq cisa, W. 

 two keels, one near (about 004 millim. from) the top, 

 the other a little further (about 0*05 millim.) from the bottom 

 of the whorl : both are blunt, roundly swollen bands defined by 

 the sutural contraction, but the upper one is slightly the sharper; 

 the under one is the stronger and better defined, the sutural con- 

 traction below it being more abrupt instead of presenting the 

 mere sloping shoulder which lies between the upper band and 

 the suture. Between these two carinations the slightly im- 

 pressed surface is scored by several threads and furrows, of 

 which sometimes one, sometimes two are stronger than the rest. 

 Similar threads, but with feebler furrows, occupy the suprasu- 

 tural contraction, the suture being marginated on its upperside 

 by a small slightly swollen band ; where the suture ceases at 

 the upper corner of the mouth, this band forms the roundly angu- 

 lated edge of the base, strongly defined by the furrow which 

 lies above it. Besides these stronger spirals, the whole surface 

 is irregularly scored with fine spiral threads. Towards the apex 

 the minuter sculpture disappears, the two keels lose their pro- 

 minence, and the whorls are sharply carinated by one of the 



